News show episode · Reality Check · 12 October 2026
Reality Check Rewind: Rep. Tim Burchett on what Navy officials told him about underwater UFOs
A Reality Check Rewind, reposted 12 October 2026, of Ross Coulthart's mid-2025 interview with Rep. Tim Burchett on unidentified submerged objects. Burchett relays what Navy officials told him: five or six deep-water areas with possible non-human bases, an object 'as big as a football field' doing 200 mph under water, and an official who left saying 'Tim, they're real.' He adds two Navy witnesses 30 years apart, a briefer's non-answer about a nuclear-facility shutdown, and warnings from colleagues.
Overview
- Anonymous, via Burchett: five or six deep-water areas; the 200 mph football-field object; 'Tim, they're real'.
- Secondhand: two Navy witnesses 30 years apart describing the same grey-blue domed saucer; a pilot's object '14 ft from my canopy'.
- Firsthand: a briefer's 'no data points' on a nuclear shutdown; warnings from a colleague and a journalist.
- Via Coulthart (leads): carriers disabled from underwater; shadow figures in submarine weapons storage.
Leads to follow
- Carriers disabled by electromagnetic interference from underwater objects (Coulthart's SCIF sources).
- Shadow figures in submarine nuclear-weapons storage areas, following Joshua Shelton's account.
Notes
- Rewind repost of 12 Oct 2026; original air date mid 2025 (to confirm).
- Burchett and Rubio appear in The Age of Disclosure (2025).
Timeline
On the recordWitness testimonyAlleged / one person's word
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1950s
Domed saucer meets a Navy shipBurchett's legislator friend; a city block long
The claims, checked
Witness testimony (4)
He asked a briefer about one of 'our nuclear facilities' being shut down during UFO activity and was told 'we don't have any data points on that'; he has heard from reliable sources that the shutdown happened.The briefing exchange is firsthand; the shutdown itself rests on unnamed sources.firsthand
A fellow member of Congress asked him 'do you really want to get into this ... you think we can handle this?', and a member of the media told him he needed protection because he had 'kicked a hornet's nest'.firsthand
A top military pilot told him an object was '14 ft from my canopy' over water.secondhandunnamed military pilot → Tim Burchett (Reality Check, mid 2025) → told it
Every transparency bill is killed by a member funded by 'the big five or six' defense contractors, which he thinks hold the material out of reach of FOIA.analysis
Alleged / one person's word (5)
A former admiral, in a chance conversation, spoke of 'five or six deep water areas'; Navy officials then raised possible non-human bases there with him, and one, leaving by the side door of his office, said: 'Tim, they're real.'anonymousa former admiral and Navy officials (unnamed) → Tim Burchett (Reality Check, mid 2025) → told it
He was told of something 'as big as a football field' moving at 200 mph underwater, detected by sonar, and that those involved were told to keep quiet.anonymousunnamed Navy sources → Tim Burchett (Reality Check, mid 2025) → told it
A friend from the state legislature who served in the Navy in the 1950s described a grey-blue domed saucer 'a city block' long meeting their ship in deep water; a naval officer, 30 years apart and unknown to him, separately described a silent 200-300 ft craft of the same colour and shape.secondhanda former state legislator who served in the Navy in the 1950s, and a naval officer (both unnamed) → Tim Burchett (Reality Check, mid 2025) → told it
Jimmy Carter reportedly 'broke down and cried' when briefed on the subject.Burchett does not vouch for it.anonymousrumour → Tim Burchett (Reality Check, mid 2025) → told it
People who testified in SCIFs told Coulthart that underwater objects have disabled aircraft carriers by electromagnetic interference, and submariners have messaged him about shadow figures in the nuclear-weapons storage areas of US submarines.anonymousunnamed SCIF witnesses and submariners → Ross Coulthart → told it